Stony Brook Legendary Lights Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 921054720
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Lancaster, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7169700378
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,502
- Expenses
- $119,238
- Assets
- $2,424
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Gary Nyman (President/Board Member)
- Brady Karas (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Nathan Bateman (Director)
- Gary Nyman (President/Board Member)
- Brady Karas (Vice-President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Stony Brook Legendary Lights is a 501(c)(3) non-profit neighborhood organization that is devoted to partnering with, and donating to, local to Western New York (WNY), child-centric charities. Our neighborhood community decorates their homes with holiday lights that turn on Thanksgiving night and shine nightly through January 1st. Each evening, visitors drive or walk through the neighborhood to view the lights and have the option to donate, if they wish to, online, or at any of the donation drop boxes set up throughout the neighborhood. At the end of the season, all donations are presented to a predetermined, local to Western New York (WNY), child-centric charity. Visitors also donate can and bottles throughout the year that we turn is to collect the deposit returns.
What it reported doing in 2024
All donations collected by Stony Brook Legendary Lights are donated to, local to Western New York (WNY), child-centric charities. Funds raised by our Christmas 2024 display through January 2025 were given to the Depew-Lancaster Boys & Girls Club. The mission of Depew-Lancaster Boys & Girls Club is to provide a world-class Club Experience that assures success is within reach of every young person who enters our doors, with all members on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and citizenship, and living a healthy lifestyle. Funds raised by the can and bottle drive from February through September will go to the 2025 charity - Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 1
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1%; rating input score 1
- Program expense ratio: 1%; rating input score 1
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.2%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 150% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1% of revenue deployed · 1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.